Ten Days of Activities

We had Langley and Carter here Sunday to Tuesday (Aug 18 - 20).  Carter and Bob watched the Whoop-up day parade on Tuesday.

Tuesday evening I went to a Relief Society Pool Party.  It was a beautiful evening, but I didn't go swimming.

Thursday night we went to a church party at Henderson Lake - another beautiful evening.

Friday evening we attended the Stringam Denecky summer barbeque.  It was held at the Rotary Picnic Shelter in Lethbridge Sports Park. I had never heard of it before, but it was a great facility (30 Ave North).  As supper started a squall came through and all the food had to be moved inside.  However the wind and rain were short-lived.

On Saturday Bob and I hosted the Murray sister-brother dinner.  Ross and Paulette stayed overnight in their motor home on the driveway..

On Wednesday evening we went to The New West Theatre for the show called "Cut Loose" using the tickets Jeremy and Julie gave us for Christmas.  It was their usual high quality, quick moving show.

The days are getting shorter now.  Summer has gone fast.

Go Japanese

It was a quiet week.  Miranda and Lincoln were both attending sports camps at the University so were gone from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Lincoln left Thursday evening to go to Scout Camp in Beaser.  Edward, Jacqueline, Erica and Austen came to pick up Miranda yesterday and Jeremy & family came and spent the night here.

We had fun dressing up Japanese.

Fort Whoop-up

Today we learned a lot of history about Fort Whoop-up.  We saw a movie, toured the various rooms, rode in a carriage, saw a cannon fired, chased goats, practised roping and ate ice cream.

I wish that I had two horns up on my head

The last of the Buffalo

Miranda's Favourite Part of the Fort was the Goats

We Toured in an Omnibus Carriage

Birds of Prey

It has been ten days since we have returned from the Lake.

The first couple of days Bob spent his time getting a downstairs bedroom ready for painting.  Darryl came and painted the room  for us.  It looks good and is not blue.  We had to buy new curtains for the room and they turned out to be very ugly, but will have to do until we get new windows and then we will get shutters like Darwin and Amber have.

Lincoln and Miranda came on Friday and will be staying for a couple of weeks.

Bob took Lincoln and Miranda to the farmer's market on Saturday morning and I took them to "Despicable Me 2" in the afternoon.  On Monday morning we had a short visit from Courtney and in the afternoon we went to Heritage Day at the Exhibition ground.

Tuesday Miranda and I went to the library to see "Because of Win Dixie" and then Joan, Sheri and John and Michael and Stacey and some of their children dropped in for a short visit.

Today we did the Birds of Prey Center in Coaldale.  We saw hawks, owls, eagles, ducks, geese and probably a few other kinds of birds.

Miranda with Caspar, the Barn Owl

Lincoln Beside his Namesake, Lincoln the Bald Eagle